Sigi's tips: Athletics in the shadows

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It's a shame: they're running faster and faster, almost for their lives. They jump so high that they almost touch the sky and throw them so that you think the spear will never pierce its tip into the ground again and stays in the air forever. Oh yes, athletics is alive. And how. But this seems to be completely lost in the Corona times. Television broadcasts have become scarce.

The newspaper columns are only filled with athletics when an editor with a passion for the sport takes up the sport or when, in the case of a world record, it really can no longer be prevented. As a long-time athletics commentator for Eurosport (since the European Championships in Split in 1990), this hits me to the core. And unfortunately it's not phantom pain. It's reality. World records on the assembly line Therefore, a few numbers and data to make it clear which dimensions have now been advanced almost unobserved. Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda improved the world records in the 5000m (12:35.36 minutes) and 10.000m (26.11.00:5000:14 minutes) that were previously owned by the miracle runner Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia). Letesenbet Gidey from Ethiopia improved her own personal best over 06.62m to 17:XNUMX minutes (improvement of XNUMX seconds!).

Armand Duplantis from Sweden jumped 6,15m, the highest anyone has ever done outdoors (he holds the world record with 6,18m - indoor and outdoor are no longer counted separately). The German javelin thrower Johannes Vetter hit the javelin in Chorzow (Poland) at 97,76m and thus within 72cm of Jan Zelezny's world record, which has stood for 24 years. And the Norwegian whirlwind Karsten Warholm almost snatched the world record from Kevin Young (USA) with 46,87 seconds in Stockholm, which he ran with 46,78 seconds at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992. New developments help It's a lot of numbers, I know. But they are part of athletics. However, especially in running, the records are not free from doubts because intensive doping controls are currently in short supply. And there is also a not insignificant development in the area of shoes, which promises clear advantages compared to before. The first marathon under two hours by Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) in Vienna can be attributed to this, among other things.

In any case, the diversity of athletics is unbroken with all the facets that go with it. The core sport, the basis of many other sports, has not run out of life. And no resuscitation is necessary yet, even if the air is getting thinner and thinner, because now winter is coming. No season for athletics.

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Sigi's tips: Athletics in the shadows

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